accept his conception of there being only a symbolic corrrespondence between the inner and outer worlds. I hope to make it clear that the correspondence is real1." § 5. Summary. According to Hamilton, Objective Logic is the science of the forms of the objects known, and Subjective Logic the science of the forms of the Knowing Subject. According to Spencer, Logic is the science of "the most general laws of correlation among existences considered as objective," and the Theory of Reasoning the science of "the most general laws of correlation among the ideas corresponding to these existences." Spencer's Logic and Theory of Reasoning seem to correspond to Hamilton's Objective Logic and Subjective Logic, respectively. According to Spencer, Logic, like Mathematics, is an objective science, and treats of the most general laws of objects existing in the outer world. It is as little dependent upon mental processes as Mathematics. Its processes and laws are determined by the processes and laws of objects and not of thoughts. Lewes regards Objective Logic as identical with Metaphysics. "The Object and the Subject would have one general Logic, separately viewed as the Logic of Intelligence and the Logic of the Cosmos." This general Logic is Objective Logic applicable alike to the Subject and to the Object, to both thoughts and things. Subjective Logic is concerned, according to him, with the codification of the rules of Proof, of the processes of Knowing, and Objective Logic with the codification of the most abstract laws of Cause, of the processes of Being. This distinction between Subjective and Objective Logic seems to correspond to Hamilton's and Spencer's distinction of these two Logics. According to Lewes, Thought and Things, Knowledge and Being are, like the concave and convex aspects of the same curve, the subjective and objective aspects of the same existence; and the Logic of the one really corresponds to, or is identical 1 Problems of Life and Mind, 3rd ed. Vol. 1. p. 75. with, the Logic of the other. While, according to Spencer, the Subject and the Object, the Ego and the Non-ego are two separate realities; and the Logic of the one has only a certain symbolic correspondence or parallelism to the Logic of the other. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. & SON, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. |